even intelligent people can fai1

　　1. the striking thing about the innovators who succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed. turn on a light, take a photograph, watch tv，search the web, jet across the pacific ocean, talk on a cell phone. the innovators who left us these things had to find the way to success through a maze of wrong turns.
　　2. we have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of american innovator thomas edison’s success in heating a thin line to white-hot heat for l4 hours in his lab in new jersey, us. he did that on october 22, l879, and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common cardboard alight in an airless space for 45 hours. three years later he went on to light up half a square mile of downtown manhattan, even though only one of the six power plants in his design worked when he tuned it on, on september 4, 1882.
　　3. "many of life’s failures," the supreme innovator said, "are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." before that magical moment in october 1879, edison had worked out no fewer than 3,000 theories about electric light, but in only two cases did his experiments work.
　　4. no one likes failure, but the smart innovators learn from it. mark gumz, the head of the camera maker olympus america inc, attributes some of the company’s successes in technology to understanding failure. his popular phrase is: "you only fail when you quit."
　　5. over two centuries, the most common quality of the innovators has been persistence. that is another way of saying they had the emotiona1 ability to keep up what they were doing. walt disney, the founder of disneyland, was so broke after a succession of financial failures that he was left shoeless in his Office because he could not afford the us $l .50 to get his shoes from the repair shop. pioneering car maker henry ford failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the model t car.
　　6. failure is harder to bear in today’s open, accelerated world. hard1y any innovation works the first time. but an impatient society and the media want instant success. when american music and movie master david geffen had a difficult time, a critic said nastily that the only difference between geffen records （geffen’s company） and the titanic （the ship that went down） was that the titanic had better music. actually, it wasn’t. after four years of losses, geffen had so many hits he could afford a ship as big as the titanic all to himself.

　　bright
　　clever
　　intelligent

　　instant
　　immediate
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　　24 paragraph 3 _______d__________
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　　a. importance of learning from failure
　　b. quality shared by most innovators
　　c. edison’s innovation
　　d. edison’s comment on failure
　　e. contributions made by innovators
　　f. miseries endured by innovators
　　27 people often didn’t realize how close they were to success when 　d　
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　　28 before henry ford eventually developed the mode t car c　
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　　29 walt disney was once so poor that　b　
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　　30 the media demand that　e　
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　　a. he developed 3,000 theories
　　b. he couldn’t afford to buy a pair of shoes
　　c. he found himself an unsuccessful man
　　d. they quitted
　　e. an innovation should work immediately
　　f. failure is the mother of success

　　give up
　　quit
　　drop

　　abandon throw away

　　o6年综合a、b试题：

60th anniversary ceremony in moscow

　　ceremony anniversary　　
　　1. with thousands of soldiers and war veterans parading across moscow’s red square and fighter jets screaming overhead, russia celebrated the 60th anniversary of defeating nazi germany. more than 50 world leaders, including china’s president hu jintao, attended the ceremony.
　　2. speaking at the start of the parade, russia’s president vladimir putin praised all those who fought for freedom and independence. "the war shows that resorting to force to solve problems will result in tragedy for the world, so a peaceful order should be safeguarded （护卫） based on security, justice and cultural exchange," putin said. "faced with the real threat of terrorism today, we must remain faithful to the memory of our fathers. it is our duty to defend a world order based on security and justice and on a new culture of relations among nations that will not allow a repeat of any war, neither ’cold’ nor ’hot’," he continued.
　　3. the second world war is perhaps the most catastrophic （灾难性的） event that mankind has ever suffered. the war affected 80 per cent of the world’s people at that time, from 61 countries, and claimed 55 million lives.

　　disaster
　　catastrophe
　　4. after the celebration, president hu said that peace, development and cooperation were the future. "china will unswervingly （坚定地） follow the road of peace and development and will make a joint effort with all nations to contribute to safeguarding world peace and promoting development," he said.
　　5. german chancellor gerhard schroeder asked russia for forgiveness for the suffering germany inflicted （造成） during the second world war in an article in sunday’s komsomolskaya pravda newspaper. "today we ask forgiveness for the suffering inflicted upon the russian people and other peoples at the hands of germans and in the name of germans," schroeder said.
　　6. president hu and the other leaders also joined a wreath （花圈） laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldiers on monday.
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　　a. pacific war
　　b. gloomy world
　　c. putin’s commemorating speech
　　d. china’s determination
　　e. schroeder’s plea for forgiveness
　　f. world’s worst disaster
　　27 russia celebrated　　d　　　.
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　　28 world war two deprived　　f　　　.
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　　29 china pledges herself to follow　　e　　　.
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　　30 the world leaders finally attended　　c　　　.
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　　a. an opening ceremony
　　b. 61 countries
　　c. a wreath laying ceremony
　　d. the 60th anniversary of its victory over nazi germany
　　e. the road of peace and development
　　f. 55 million people of their lives